While not the first English-language edition of this famous gastronomical treatise, which claim goes to Lindsay & Blakiston's 1854 Philadelphia edition, an abridged translation by Fayette Robinson, this is the first complete English translation. Translator uncredited. Preface by Charles Monselet. Printed in the UK in an edition of 500 copies; 300 for the UK with the imprint of J. C. Nimmo & Bain and 200 for the US. Bitting p. 60; Cagle 581.